Ipai language

E13261

The Ipai language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Ipai) people of southern California and northern Baja California.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Ipai language canonical 3
Tipai language 3
Ipai-Tipai language 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Yuman language
indigenous language of North America
alternateName Kumeyaay (in some classifications)
Diegueño
surface form: Northern Diegueño
closeTo Diegueño language
Kumeyaay language
Ipai language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tipai language
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
endangeredStatusReason language shift to English
language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Kumeyaay people
surface form: Kumeyaay (Ipai) people
glottologCode ipai1238
hasDialect Central Ipai
Ipai-Tipai
surface form: Northern Ipai

Ipai-Tipai
surface form: Southern Ipai
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
complex aspect system
rich verbal morphology
use of clitics
verb-final word order tendency
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
ejective consonants
glottalized consonants
ISO639-3 nai
languageFamily Hokan languages
surface form: Hokan (proposed) language family

Yuman language family
partOf Kumeyaay language
surface form: Kumeyaay–Ipai–Tipai language complex
region northern Baja California
Southern California
surface form: southern California
revitalizationEffort community language classes
dictionary development
documentation projects
orthography standardization
spokenBy Ipai people
Kumeyaay people
status endangered language
subclassOf Delta–California Yuman language
Kumeyaay language
surface form: Kumeyaay language continuum
traditionalTerritory San Diego County
surface form: San Diego County, California

Baja California
surface form: northern Baja California, Mexico
usedFor oral tradition
songs
storytelling
usedIn traditional Kumeyaay ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yuman language family hasMemberLanguage Ipai language
this entity surface form: Tipai language
Ipai language closeTo Ipai language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tipai language
Yuman–Cochimí languages hasLanguage Ipai language
this entity surface form: Tipai language
Ipai people language Ipai language
Mesa Grande Diegueño subdivisionOf Ipai language
this entity surface form: Ipai-Tipai language continuum
Kamia dialect subdivisionOf Ipai language
this entity surface form: Ipai-Tipai language